U.S. to Iran: We'll be glad to talk to you if you agree in advance to the demand that we want to talk with you about.

< rolls eyes > so, let me see if i understand... iran wants to talk... the u.s. has been avoiding it like the plague but pressure has mounted to the point that we would look like even bigger fools than we do already if we don't at least make the effort... however, as a pre-condition to talking, we're insisting that iran bow to the demand we've been making all along before we even sit down at the table... is it just me or is this response as empty as george bush's suit...?

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the US would join EU nations in talks if Iran suspended uranium enrichment and reprocessing work.

there is no way that iran could fall for such a patently bullying ploy and, in fact, they didn't...

The Iranian state news agency dismissed the offer as a "propaganda move", in the first reaction from Iran.

but, in the greatest tradition of show business, for george the-empty-suit bush, the show must go on...

President Bush said he believed the issue could be solved diplomatically.

he believes nothing of the kind... if he did, we would have been talking a hell of a long time ago...

[UPDATE]

[S]ome participants in the drawn-out nuclear drama questioned whether this was an offer intended to fail, devised to show the extent of Iran's intransigence.

ya THINK...?!?!?!

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